[PATCH] mkinitrd rescue mode - now crypto

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Thu Jun 9 20:59:00 UTC 2005


On 6/8/05, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
>         Only reason I seem to need nash at all, right now, is for the
> "makerootdev" command and the "switchroot" command (busybox has
> pivot_root, but not switchroot, and I can ignore the "setquiet" noise).
> With those two functions, I could dump nash entirely and operate totally
> from busybox with a minimal increase in size.  Which raises some other
> questions regarding busybox...

I too am running an entirely encrypted disk (LVM in dmcrypt no less,
so I get auto volume detection)... I pretty much solved it the same
way you did, I kept nash around for switchroot and change to ash for
everything else so I could interact with the password prompt.




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